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Earmarks No Good? Tell That to Janesville
Fri, 03/13/2009 - 9:12am | mal contends
Update: Mike Madden in Salon - "President Obama urges pork reform and signs a bill with earmarks in it on the same day. Republicans make an unconvincing show of outrage."
From today's State Journal: "U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl D-Wis., added $951,000 to the federal Omnibus Appropriations Bill for Black hawk Technical College to provide job training and placement services for former employees of General Motors in Janesville and it supplier companies."
The horror ... because the job training and placement services are an earmark, according to Wisconsin's Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Middleton) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Janesville) and of-course the ever-foolish John McCain.
Reads Feingold's statement:
From today's State Journal: "U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl D-Wis., added $951,000 to the federal Omnibus Appropriations Bill for Black hawk Technical College to provide job training and placement services for former employees of General Motors in Janesville and it supplier companies."
The horror ... because the job training and placement services are an earmark, according to Wisconsin's Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Middleton) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Janesville) and of-course the ever-foolish John McCain.
Reads Feingold's statement:
Tags: McCain's Nuts, Feingold and Ryan Following
Fri, 03/06/2009 - 2:50pm | mal contends
Update: Herbert: "Freaking out over earmarks is like watching a neighborhood that is being consumed by flames and complaining that there is crabgrass on some of the lawns."
Sen. John McCain is like a man on the Titanic complaining to the bartender that there’s not enough vodka in his drink as outside the iceberg approaches.
Reads a fundraising e-mail from McCain complaining about “pork” in a big spending bill (now blocked by Republicans threatening a filibuster in the U.S. Senate) as McCain seeks reelection in 2010:
Sen. John McCain is like a man on the Titanic complaining to the bartender that there’s not enough vodka in his drink as outside the iceberg approaches.
Reads a fundraising e-mail from McCain complaining about “pork” in a big spending bill (now blocked by Republicans threatening a filibuster in the U.S. Senate) as McCain seeks reelection in 2010:
My Friend, … I have called on the President to take a principled stand and veto the bill if it is sent to him, but unfortunately, he appears ready to sign it into law, which is nothing more than politics as usual.
Vote Butler over Gableman, Gableman Unfit for Office
Mon, 03/31/2008 - 12:58pm | mal contends
Very little needs to be added to commentary on the campaign of Supreme Court candidate Michael Gableman who is a disgrace to an entire branch of government.
Justice Louis Butler's campaign sent out an e-mail this morning to attorneys across the state that sums up well why Gableman will be defeated tomorrow. It is published below:
Dear Friends:
As you probably already know, the Milwaukee and Waukesha County Bar Associations have done polls related to the qualifications of the various candidates for Wisconsin Supreme Court.
The election is this Tuesday, April 1.
Nine out of 10 of those who expressed an opinion in Milwaukee said that Justice Louis Butler was qualified. Only about a third said the same about his opponent, Michael Gableman.
In Waukesha, over 80% of those expressing an opinion said that Justice Butler was qualified.Barely half said the same about his opponent. His opponent's campaign is claiming that these results are skewed because Mr.Gableman currently serves as a judge far away from Milwaukee in Burnett County, a small, rural jurisdiction in the far northwest corner of the state.
Justice Louis Butler's campaign sent out an e-mail this morning to attorneys across the state that sums up well why Gableman will be defeated tomorrow. It is published below:
Dear Friends:
As you probably already know, the Milwaukee and Waukesha County Bar Associations have done polls related to the qualifications of the various candidates for Wisconsin Supreme Court.
The election is this Tuesday, April 1.
Nine out of 10 of those who expressed an opinion in Milwaukee said that Justice Louis Butler was qualified. Only about a third said the same about his opponent, Michael Gableman.
In Waukesha, over 80% of those expressing an opinion said that Justice Butler was qualified.Barely half said the same about his opponent. His opponent's campaign is claiming that these results are skewed because Mr.Gableman currently serves as a judge far away from Milwaukee in Burnett County, a small, rural jurisdiction in the far northwest corner of the state.
Breaking: Wisconsin Superdelegate Endorses Barack Obama for President
Fri, 03/14/2008 - 11:44am | mal contends
Hillary is the big, yucky snowbank outside that is melting fast.
Hillary's divide-and-conquer brand of politics is becoming untenable in the Democratic presidential primary.
Melissa Schroeder, Wisconsin’s 7th District Democratic Party Secretary and superdelegate, goes to Obama. From the Obama campaign:
Today Wisconsin superdelegate Melissa Schroeder endorsed Barack Obama for president, citing his unique ability to stand up to the special interests and unite all Americans to bring about real, meaningful change.
Melissa Schroeder said: “After much consideration, I have decided to endorse Senator Barack Obama. My decision came down to electability and who I felt would do a better job of unifying this country for a common purpose. Obama's message of hope and change has touched millions of voters in a way that I haven't seen since the late 1960's. People from every walk of life, young and the not so young, Democrats, Independents and some Republicans, are all rallying around a belief that change can happen if we want it bad enough. With Obama as our nominee, I am confident that this November we will increase our majority in the House and Senate and elect a Democrat to the White House.”